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This makes me wonder: how many of the books I grew up with had already been bowdlerized?
by Uhhrrr 4y ago
This makes me wonder: how many of the books I grew up with had already been bowdlerized?
- gsinclair 4y agoIt’s interesting that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has been edited before — “de-negroed”, in fact, according to Dahl. It forces me to wrestle with that uncomfortable feeling that I find these edits off-putting, yet the so-called “original” version I am mentally defending was not in fact necessarily the original.
- jamil7 4y agoI feel similarly having grown up with the books. The difference in that example the author himself updated the text.